Ultraviolet light and polyethylene glycol as environmental cleaning agents to reduce contamination of Pseudogymnoascus destructans in bat hibernacula
Fig 5
Shannon Diversity Index for bacterial taxa (A) and fungal taxa (B) in treatment cells in the hibernaculum in Ontario.
The genus Pseudosgymnoascus was removed from fungal taxa diversity calculations because potential reductions in P. destructans, the targeted fungal species, would alter calculations of non-target effects. CON = control, ISO = isopropyl alcohol, PEG = polyethylene glycol, UV-C = ultraviolet-C radiation. Pre-treatment = “baseline” Shannon diversity before treatments occurred. The significant effect of treatment and time on bacterial diversity, driven solely by isopropyl alcohol (see results), is shown by the asterisk in A. The trend for declining fungal diversity with time was not significant.